GATOR1-related focal cortical dysplasia in epilepsy surgery patients and their families: A possible gradient in severity?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00843989:_____/21:E0108752 RIV/00064203:_____/21:10420875

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=KkygVhrf_" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=KkygVhrf_</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpn.2020.12.001" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ejpn.2020.12.001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

GATOR1-related focal cortical dysplasia in epilepsy surgery patients and their families: A possible gradient in severity?

Original language description

Background: Variants of GATOR1-genes represent a recognised cause of focal cortical dysplasia (FCD), the most common structural aetiology in paediatric drug-resistant focal epilepsy. Reports on familial cases of GATOR1-associated FCD are limited, especially with respect to epilepsy surgery outcomes. Methods: We present phenotypical manifestations of four unrelated patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy, FCD and a first-degree relative with epilepsy. All patients underwent targeted gene panel sequencing as a part of the presurgical work up. Literature search was performed to compare our findings to previously published cases. Results: The children (probands) had a more severe phenotype than their parents, including drug-resistant epilepsy and developmental delay, and they failed to achieve seizure freedom post-surgically. All patients had histopathologically confirmed FCD (types IIa, IIb, Ia). In Patient 1 and her affected father, we detected a known pathogenic NPRL2 variant. In patients 2 and 3 and their affected parents, we found novel likely pathogenic germline DEPDC5 variants. In family 4, we detected a novel variant in NPRL3. We identified 15 additional cases who underwent epilepsy surgery for GATOR1-associated FCD, with a positive family history of epilepsy in the literature; in 8/13 tested, the variant was inherited from an asymptomatic parent. Conclusion: The presented cases displayed a severity gradient in phenotype with children more severely affected than the parents. Although patients with GATOR1-associated FCD are considered good surgical candidates, post-surgical seizure outcome was poor in our familial cases, suggesting that accurate identification of the epileptogenic zone may be more challenging in this subgroup of patients.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30103 - Neurosciences (including psychophysiology)

Project

<a href="/en/project/NV19-04-00369" target="_blank" >NV19-04-00369: Stratification of patients with focal cortical dysplasia towards optimizing epilepsy surgery</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Paediatric Neurology

ISSN

1090-3798

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

30

Issue of the periodical within the volume

January

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

88-96

UT code for WoS article

000637968400011

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85099388217